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Website Updating

Hello there
A newbie question to experts-
I just recently updated content on a website for a friend of mine using coffeecup. But somehow the changes I have done do not show up on computers on which previously the site had been accessed including my own on which the changes are being made.
Does this have something to do wiith the hosting server or an issue with my updates? If it is an issue with the website being cached on the local computer, is there any way to have this fixed from the server side?
Thanks

hi john
Yes i have tried that like 100 times, then restart, nothing seems to be working. But even if the refresh or cache clearing worked, the issue still would be ther for any other person from other parts of the world who has previously accessed this site wont see the changes. And would not be a practical thing if each person has to do the same.

The cache clears itself after an amount of time or until it reaches certain amount of information. There's nothing that you can do about someone else's cache. Just place a expiry meta tag so in the future the browser will go to the site instead of using the cached copy. But use it wisely, because, after all, the browser caches pages to show the quicker, and that's also to your advantage

You should be able to set your files to expire immediately so they are not cached. This is something you would need to ask your host about. I would caution you though that this probably isn't the best solution if you won't be updating the site often.

The cache clears itself after an amount of time or until it reaches certain amount of information. There's nothing that you can do about someone else's cache. Just place a expiry meta tag so in the future the browser will go to the site instead of using the cached copy. But use it wisely, because, after all, the browser caches pages to show the quicker, and that's also to your advantage

If you want to force all visitors of the site to get the latest version of the site, the only way this can be achived is by renaming files - i.e. adding a date stamp or version number the file names: